stupid html question

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Sun Sep 5 16:18:02 PDT 2004


On Saturday 04 September 2004 08:33 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:03:27 -0700, Tony Alfrey 
<tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 September 2004 07:41 pm, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> > > Hi Tony,
> > >
> > > If you want PDF without shelling out for Adobe Acrobat, you might
> > > want to look at DocBook (http://www.docbook.org/). If you're
> > > using Fedora/Red Hat, it is relatively easy to generate nice
> > > looking PDF's using just a text editor and XML. The learning part
> > > is tough, though. Or you could use Open Office, though I haven't
> > > tried the PDF function there myself.
> >
> > Yes, I am looking for a PDF application.  I actually have Acrobat
> > on the Winbloze partition and used it for this task.  I have
> > OpenOffice on a SuSE partition so I will see how well it works for
> > generating a PDF. Thanks for your suggestions!
> >
> Here's a different thought.  If you have a Postscript printer (or
> even just the printer
> driver), send the page to that printer driver, printing to a file.
> That gives you Postscript.
> Then use
>      ps2pdf myfile.ps
> to create 'myfile.pdf'.  All done.
>
> Don't have 'ps2pdf'?
>    emerge -a app-text/ghostscript
>
> ++ kevin
>

Have ps2pdf.  Turns out, however, that I don't have emerge.

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Tony Alfrey
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